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Wills Hall is one of more than twenty halls of residence in the University of Bristol. It is located high on the Stoke Bishop site on the edge of the Bristol Downs, and houses c. 370 students in two quadrangles. Almost all of these students are in their first year of study. History.
Wills Hall is a residence in our North Residential Village. It consists of three main blocks of accommodation which together form the new quad. The hall has lots of communal and social areas, and plenty of green space surrounding it too. From £6916. 323 places. 1.8 miles to campus. Catered.
A HISTORY OF WILLS HALL. Wills Hall is named for Henry Herbert Wills (1856-1922), a philanthropist and businessman, a member of a family of tobacco merchants prominent in Bristol and a family ultimately responsible for the foundation of the University. Wills Hall was funded and built in HH's memory in the 1920s by his brother George Alfred ...
Wills Hall. University Hall. Hiatt Baker Hall. Churchill Hall. Badock Hall. Student houses. The Hawthorns. Hillside/Woodside. Northwell House. 115 Queens Road. Winkworth House. Partner properties. Unite House. Culver House. Riverside collection of residences. Nelson House. References. External links.
A History of Wills Hall. by M. J. Crossley Evans and Andrew Sulston. PLACE ORDER. The Wills Hall Association has published a new edition of A History of Wills Hall, a hardback book with 112 pages and over 100 photographs. The text is fully updated and revised to 2017.
Wills Hall was built between 1925 and 1929 as the first dedicated residence for male students of the University of Bristol. It became a mixed hall in 1985. It was officially opened by Winston Churchill in December 1929, although the first 150 residents had arrived on 4 October that year and were already firmly ensconced.
Wills Hall. Address: Wills Hall, Parrys Lane, Bristol, BS9 1AE. Located in Stoke Bishop on the edge of The Bristol Downs. The building known as Wills Hall to generations of its young residents was originally called “Downside House.”. Built in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style, in the 1830s the first historical reference to it as a family ...
